Join Hadar Cohen in conversation with Hadar Ahuvia: dancer, choreographer and ritual facilitator. Hadar Ahuvia shares of her journey to dance as a politicized art form that helped her deconstruct the Zionism living in her body. She explains how Israeli folk dancing was intentionally choreographed from various ethnic dances and how this modern cultural creation was intertwined with the militaristic settling of Palestine pre-1948. As a dancer who is now in Rabbinical school, Hadar Ahuvia lets us i...
Aug 21, 2025•35 min
As an agricultural designer and practicing Jew, Katie Wachsberger speaks through the lens of ecology on rewilding Judaism, liberatory multi-religiosity, and a fundamental rupture caused by colonization. Katie shares about the retreat she organized in Al Andalus called Decolonizing Judaism and shows how our relationship to land serves as a mirror to the relationship we have with the Divine. In this episode, we hear about Katie’s personal journey from her modern orthodox upbringing in New York to ...
Jun 18, 2025•54 min
In this episode, Layla Maghribi shares personal stories of ancestral pilgrimage to Libya and Syria. She traces her family history of activism against colonialism, which she continues through her own work, and highlights the critical history of Italian colonialism in Libya that is so often overlooked. In conversation with Hadar Cohen, Layla explores the mental health impacts of exile, the necessity of community to regional resilience, and the centrality of Palestinian liberation. You can follow L...
May 21, 2025•1 hr 26 min
Listen into this conversation with Juliette Samman to learn about a grassroots movement led by Palestinians who articulate a vision of liberation through the One Democratic State Initiative. The “One Democratic State” solution is a political vision that identifies Zionism’s settler-colonial endeavor as the root cause of suffering and violence in Palestine, and its politicization of identity as a danger to the cohesion and health of societies. It proposes the transition to One Democratic State as...
Jan 27, 2025•48 min
Rawan Roshni takes us on an elemental journey through her life as a Palestinian woman, global citizen, and artist. She weaves stories about how the Earth - olive trees, roots, birds, our bodies - are inextricably linked to a spiritual path, offers us tools for facilitating transformative group processes, and shares insights into the interplay between personal and communal healing and activism. You can follow Rawan through her website and social media: https://rawanroshni.com and @rawanroshnioffi...
Jan 13, 2025•1 hr 21 min
Hadar's Web is a podcast featuring community conversations on spirituality, healing, justice, and art. Available on Spotify, Google Podcast, Apple Podcast and more. Check it out at malchut.one. Support this podcast on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/hadarcohen Verenice Berroa Torres is a spiritual doula and creator. She was the first God Fellow in 2021. Follow her Instagram account @cocreatingwithplants God Fellowship is open for registration, two upcoming online cohorts: 1. Sundays, Jan 19 –...
Jan 07, 2025•59 min
Erin Axelman is a queer Jewish filmmaker, based out of Somerville, MA. Israelism is their directorial debut. Erin and Sam Eilertsen founded Tikkun Olam Productions, a nonprofit filmmaking collective that focuses on documenting and supporting movements for justice. Erin has produced videos for Senator Ed Markey, as well as Congressman Jamaal Bowman. Sam Eilertsen worked for a decade as a cinematographer and editor on narrative and documentary projects before directing Israelism, which is also his...
Sep 30, 2024•56 min
Ala’ Khan is a storyteller and filmmaker focused on community based storytelling - uplifting the authentic and diverse stories of BIPOC communities. Faith and spirituality are what ground Ala’ and motivate her work and engagement with the world as a community activist in pursuit of justice and racial equity. IG @amkjourneys Hadar Cohen is an Arab Jewish scholar, mystic and artist. She teaches spirituality and Jewish mysticism at Malchut, a spiritual skill building school teaching direct experien...
Jul 21, 2024•1 hr 26 min
Nadia Irshaid Gilbert is a Palestinian-American artist working at the intersection of spirit, culinary production, experience design and filmmaking. Her multidisciplinary work invites us to dive deep, transform our relationships, and engage with the vision of interconnected, collective liberation. https://www.instagram.com/nadiadiaspora/ Hadar Cohen is an Arab Jewish scholar, mystic and artist. She teaches spirituality and Jewish mysticism at Malchut, a spiritual skill building school teaching d...
Apr 30, 2024•43 min
Binya Kóatz is a talmud teacher and standup comedian, trying to be radical and funny wherever she goes. She helped start Shel Maala, an online Queer anti-zionist Yeshiva, and has performed and taught in cities across North America. Rabbi Xava De Cordova is a disabled, Sefradi, Mizraxi trans woman and co-host of the world's first Queer Talmud podcast, "Xai, how are you?". She is a long-time SVARA-style Talmud learner and SVARA teaching kollel fellow who got her start as a teacher by creating Beit...
Apr 08, 2024•1 hr
Maria Amiouni is a spiritual coach, human design reader & published poet. She’s been devoted to the spiritual path for the past 10 years as it’s led her to remember who she is & why she is here. Her purpose is to help people break free from their conditioning & come out the other side more empowered & connected to the Divine. @maria.amiouni (ig), mariaamiouni.com (website) Hadar Cohen is an Arab Jewish scholar, mystic and artist. She teaches spirituality and Jewish mysticism at M...
Apr 01, 2024•1 hr 3 min
Asaf Elia-Shalev is an Israeli-American journalist with Mizrahi roots. Based in Los-Angeles, he works as an investigative reporter for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency. He was the historian behind the 2022 re-release of the Israeli Black Panthers Haggadah. He recently published a narrative nonfiction book titled, “Israel's Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation's Founding Myth.” https://www.ucpress.edu/ebook/9780520967496/israels-black-panthers Hadar Cohen is an Arab Jewish scholar, my...
Mar 25, 2024•1 hr 38 min
Daniel Foor is a doctor of psychology, experienced ritualist, and the author of Ancestral Medicine: Rituals for Personal and Family Healing. He's an initiate in the Òrìṣà tradition of Yoruba-speaking West Africa and practicing Muslim who has also learned from the older ways of his English and German ancestors. Daniel is passionate about work at the intersection of cultural healing, animist ethics, and applied ritual arts. He lives with his wife and two daughters, ages six and three, near Granada...
Mar 14, 2024•1 hr
This episode was recorded on March 23, 2023 and is in collaboration with Jewish Ancestral Healing and the Sarah & Hajar Series . Ariella Aïsha Azoulay is an author, curator of anti-colonial archives, film essayist, and theorist of photography. She is a professor of Modern Culture and Media and Comparative Literature at Brown University. She is of Algerian and Palestinian descent and identifies as a Muslim Jew, which she powerfully unpacks in her article Unlearning Our Settler Colonial Tongue...
Mar 06, 2024•1 hr 16 min
Daniel Maté is an award-winning composer, lyricist, and playwright for musical theatre with an M.F.A. in Musical Theatre Writing from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a B.A. in Psychology and Philosophy from McGill. He co-authored the New York Times bestselling book, The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness and Healing in a Toxic Culture, with his father Dr. Gabor Maté; the two Matés’ next book will be called Hello Again: A Fresh Start for Parents and Their Adult Children, based on their popular wo...
Feb 21, 2024•1 hr 24 min
Avi Shlaim is an Emeritus Professor of International Relations at the University of Oxford and a Fellow of the British Academy. His books include Collusion across the Jordan: King Abdullah, the Zionist Movement, and the Partition of Palestine (1988); War and Peace in the Middle East: A Concise History (1995); The Iron Wall: Israel and the Arab World (2000,updated edition 2014); Lion of Jordan: The Life of King Hussein in War and Peace (2007); Israel and Palestine: Reappraisals, Revisions, Refuta...
Sep 19, 2023•1 hr 35 min
Dalia Omar Zada is a first-generation Kurd from Efrin (Kurdistan) and was raised in San Diego (Kumeyaay Land). She is currently pursuing a PhD in Social Justice for Education researching how counternarratives work to dismantle orientalist, colonial, and reductive misconceptions of the SWANA regions and individuals. She is also an analyst and researcher for an early childhood education nonprofit dedicated to equity and joy. Dalia's work and passion live at the intersection of Education, spiritual...
Sep 07, 2023•1 hr 3 min
Diana is the founder of MAGICDATES, a better-for-you snack company that uses dates as a symbol of cultural connection. Our vision is to share about our rich MENA culture, it's food, people, and wisdom. www.magicdatesbites.com Hadar is an Arab Jewish scholar, mystic and artist. She teaches spirituality and Jewish mysticism at Malchut, a spiritual skill building school teaching direct experience of God. Hadar is a Jewish mystic who builds decolonial frameworks to worship God. Hadar is an artist we...
Apr 13, 2023•57 min
This talk was given as an Instagram Live on @hadarcohen32 Hadar is an Arab Jewish scholar, mystic and artist. She teaches spirituality and Jewish mysticism at Malchut, a spiritual skill building school teaching direct experience of God. Hadar is a Jewish mystic who builds decolonial frameworks to worship God. Hadar is an artist weaving the spiritual with the political through the artistic mediums of performance, movement, writing, weaving, sound, and ritual. To learn more about Hadar, visit hada...
Apr 03, 2023•41 min
Maya June Mansour is an artist originally from Nashville, Tennessee with roots in Black America, Iran, and Palestine. Her work uses photography and written word to explore beauty and identity. https://mayajunemansour.com @mayajune Hadar is an Arab Jewish scholar, mystic and artist. She teaches spirituality and Jewish mysticism at Malchut, a spiritual skill building school teaching direct experience of God. Hadar is a Jewish mystic who builds decolonial frameworks to worship God. Hadar is an arti...
Mar 20, 2023•54 min
Nkechi Deanna Njaka (she/her) is a practiced-based creative researcher, a neuroscientist, choreography artist, and mindfulness meditation guide. She is the founder of The Compass, NDN lifestyle studio and co-founder of the sleep app DreamWell. Her work intersects wellness, science, art and social practice. Through her work, research, practice and study, she discovered that mindfulness and creativity are crucial for sustaining individual and global wellbeing. Www.NkechiNjaka.com Hadar is an Arab ...
Mar 13, 2023•46 min
Recorded in London August 1, 2022 at Kunstraum as a community event. Hadar is an Arab Jewish scholar, mystic and artist. She teaches spirituality and Jewish mysticism at Malchut, a spiritual skill building school teaching direct experience of God. Hadar is a Jewish mystic who builds decolonial frameworks to worship God. Hadar is an artist weaving the spiritual with the political through the artistic mediums of performance, movement, writing, weaving, sound, and ritual. To learn more about Hadar,...
Mar 06, 2023•1 hr 30 min
Merhan Keller is an Egyptian American Activist, kick started the Me too movement in the Middle East and advocating for women rights in the Arab world. @merhankeller Hadar is an Arab Jewish scholar, mystic and artist. She teaches spirituality and Jewish mysticism at Malchut, a spiritual skill building school teaching direct experience of God. Hadar is a Jewish mystic who builds decolonial frameworks to worship God. Hadar is an artist weaving the spiritual with the political through the artistic m...
Feb 27, 2023•1 hr 13 min
Ahmed Sadkhan also known as the healing khan is a life coach and a queer Muslim activist part of the Arab Lebanese diaspora in Berlin. He focuses his work on interdisciplinary healing. @thehealingkhan Hadar is an Arab Jewish scholar, mystic and artist. She teaches spirituality and Jewish mysticism at Malchut, a spiritual skill building school teaching direct experience of God. Hadar is a Jewish mystic who builds decolonial frameworks to worship God. Hadar is an artist weaving the spiritual with ...
Feb 22, 2023•1 hr 17 min
On Militarization & Mysticism, a talk by Hadar Cohen originally as an Instagram Live recorded on January 26, 2022. To read the written piece on this talk, click here . Hadar is an Arab Jewish scholar, mystic and artist. She teaches spirituality and Jewish mysticism at Malchut, a spiritual skill building school teaching direct experience of God. Hadar is a Jewish mystic who builds decolonial frameworks to worship God. Hadar is an artist weaving the spiritual with the political through the art...
Feb 08, 2023•22 min
Originally appeared as an Instagram Live on June 13, 2021 as a talk by Hadar Cohen on Spiritual Teachings on Oppression. Hadar is an Arab Jewish scholar, mystic and artist. She teaches spirituality and Jewish mysticism at Malchut, a spiritual skill building school teaching direct experience of God. Hadar is a Jewish mystic who builds decolonial frameworks to worship God. Hadar is an artist weaving the spiritual with the political through the artistic mediums of performance, movement, writing, we...
Jan 05, 2023•32 min
